Skip to main content
Back to Show
Deep Look

Once a Spawn a Time: Horseshoe Crabs Mob the Beach

Season 8 Episode 14

Horseshoe crabs may look scary, but when it’s springtime in Delaware Bay, millions of these arthropods show they’re lovers, not fighters. They lay masses of blue-green eggs up on the shore. At just the right time, they pop and release the larvae within to the sea.